Thread cutting and securing means



Patented Sept. V.2, 1933 lAvpl'icfin einer, S5193?- 'salirovgtvj e Y --1o1aim.i(o1.-3o-14) f This nvitin 'elati .ariA improredeihred, cutter and"securing" means' involving ajconibined holder andcutter, for use on aspool of thread. The primary object ofthe invention isl theV provisionof a device of this characterwhich is coml paratively inexpensive incost `of manufacture; which may with facility be attached to and usedwith a spool of thread, and which may with equal facility be withdrawnfrom or detachedY 1i' from .the spool, when the latter is emptied of itsthread, and the device may thereafter beattached to another spoolofthread. VIn carrycutting edge for the thread, and utilizemeans forattaching Athe holder to the spool, kand `for holding the endofthe-thread insuch manner that it may readily be cut Awhen a length ofthread is desired, and the remainingendof the l thread is retained inpositionwhere it is readily accessible for a succeeding length to be cuttherefrom.

y nations and arrangements of parts as willlhereinafter be more fully`set forth land claimed.- `In the accompanying drawing thereislillustrated one completeexample, and amodiiication thereof, of thephysical embodiment'of the invention"A u wherein theparts are combinedand arranged aclcording to the best mode.. thus far devised for Figure 1is aside View ofhaspool ofA thread having one of the devices of myinvention attached 35 f thereto.

Figure 2 is an end View as seen-from the right in Figure 1. Y

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional View through. one end of the spool,as at line 3--3 of Figure 2.

Figure 2 is a transverse lsectional view* at line 4 4 of Figure 3. i 4.j

Figure 5 is a View at one end ofthe spool of thread showing the holderin section, as at linev 5-5 of Figure'2.

Figure 6 is an end View `of a spool of thread with a modied form of myinvention attached thereto. l

Figure 7 is alongitudinal sectional view at one end of the spool, atline 7-7 of Figure 6. e

Figure 8 is a view at one end of the spool of thread, showing thecutter-holder in section as at line 8-8 of Figure 6.

In the drawing there is illustrated a conven- 4tional spoolof threadasSwith the thread T anchoring`cleat'. Y Y

In Figure 1 the end of the thread T is shown `as caught and retained,under the holder or PATENT ,goFFifcEg; i

, .Y t.' THREADPTTINQLNDassomme f .1 1i. .Perha'm F. Hurst,fdeea'sed,`late of Seattle, Wash., i

fby Anna Beulah Hurst, administratrix, Seattle,

woun `thereon inusual manner, andfthesppol Thecofmb'ined thread holderand Vcutter comprises an attaching plate 2`formedwith an opening 3therein, and `adapted toi lie flat against the end face of 'one of theheads ofthe spool. The athead of the spoolby means of a tack Llwhich isfashioned l. with a larger-ound headp, andthe tack of course is driventhrough Vthe hole 3 and `into the woodof the-spool forfasteningthedevice to-the spool.` .i

The attaching plate is preferably fashioned of and this flange, whichconforms to the contourof the periphery of the circular headror flangeof the spool, is of slightly greater diameter in its curvature, than thespool-head, to permit'the thread T to be slipped between the flange andthe spool,

thread, and to facilitate -the entrance of theA thread to the spacebeneath the cleat, -the flange, j o A at its. opposite ends, isprovidedwith upturnedV `guides and' 8,`beneath which the thread is.

the plata-and this cutting' edge is located adjacent the junction of theattaching plate with the anchoring cleat, where itis readilyI accessiblewhen a length of thread is desired fromthe spool of thread. In Figure 5a'length of thread is `illustrated .in position toj be severed from thespoolof thread, and it will be noted that the `thread is passed underthe anchoring cleat,v

around the attaching plate, andracross the cutting edge, so that a pullon thelength of thread will sever it on the cutting edge. After thelength f of thread has been severed, the remaining end of Athespool-thread, as indicated-by dotted lines, projects into position whereit is readily acces- In Figures 6, 7, and 8, where. the modification Yis illustrated, the attaching plate l0 is fash- Gosh.,

taching plate is secured in vposition against the n resilient metal andhas an integral, arcuate flange l 6 disposed at right angles to theattachingplate,`

A." and there be held' by friction. The flange 6 thus. i 4 Y Y forms ananchoring' cleat for the end of the The invention consists incertainnovel combiioned with a triangular kor sharpened r spur or stud 11,lperpendicular to the plate, and driven `into the wood head of -thespool, and the cutting edge 12 is fashioned at'the left edge of theplate, instead-of at the rightedge as in Figure 2'.

As seen in Figure 8,l the thread ispassed beback and giving it a jerkagainst the cutting edge 12, leaving a shortend of the thread ,beneaththe anchoring cleat for further use.

The end of the spool-thread is, thus, atlall times held beneath theanchoring cliporflange 6 Yto prevent displacement and unu'rindingy ofthe thread from the Spool, and the extremity of the j thread isaccessible when it is desired to unwind a length fromthe spool. Y l t lY o The combined holder and cutter is capable of usejin various ways,andthethreadsor threadthe anchoring'oleat by either a right-hand personVor a left-hand person, as it will be apparent that the thread 'may enterthe 'holder beneath either. of the guides '7 or 8.

Having thus Vfully described the-invention, what iisI claimed as new anddesired to be secured by `Letters Patent isyv The combination withanattaching plate, and

means ior fastening said plateto a spool, ofv an v forming an anchoringcleat, and a cutting edge fashioned on the plate adjacent-the junctionof the flange with the plate' whereby a portion of the spoo1-thread 'maybe loopedaround the plate and underthe upturned ends, and a length ofthread severed'iroin the spool-thread, leaving a 5"-loose-endfon thespool `thread.

1 ANNA BEULAH BURST,

t -Aminstratfiof me Estate of Prham F. Hurst, ends mayibe' manipulatedfor engagementwith l n I

